UC Essay Prompt 1?? "Why this Major?"

<p>what if your applying to different UC's under different majors!
help pleaseee</p>

<p>Yeah that was a dilemma I was faced with too since I'm majoring in psychology for 3/4 of the UC's I applied to and am majoring in Econ for Berkeley. Basically the representative said that I can only write one essay and send it to all the UC's. If you write about one major, the other schools (that you applied with the 2nd major) will know that you wanted the first major. So you're going to be taking a chance by doing that. What I'm doing is writing half of the essay on the first major and then writing that I also want to double major in economics. So that way one major isn't completely left out!</p>

<p>really? will that work? wouldn't they just think your a joke since your submitting an essay about the second major? im having problems about writing multiple essays too</p>

<p>basically my majors are completely different! conservation and resource studies/environmental studies AND comm! so its basically just taking a risk....... or incorporating the second major in your "about you" second prompt? what do you think?</p>

<p>Yeah, I definitely think that you should incorporate a bit about both majors in ur essays, so that way the admissions ppl will know you're serious as opposed to just writing down another major to get in easily. I'm kinda scared though, I hope that they won't reject me just because I have diff. majors. So many of my friends are putting down 2 majors. One guy put down 3 diff ones haha..</p>

<p>Oh and to truucharms: we can't submit multiple essays... just one for all the UC's! (I know, bummer!) haha</p>

<p>yeah i mean my prereqs for communications which is what im applying to most of my schools with are all done! so hopefully they willl see that my second major environmental science i justttt took major interest in the end of my first year at ccc so im working on those pre reqs this year! its soo hard to talk about two different majors though ugh!! this sucks i wish it wasn't a universal essay to all the Uc's</p>

<p>What about saying something like: "I plan to take courses in..." or "I plan to focus my studies on..." and then talk about what classes you want to take. If there is any way you can link the different majors together, I think that would be good. Something like "I want to focus my studies on environmental science and communication because I hope to be able to communicate to the world the importance of the environment"??</p>

<p>The UCs know you are applying to several schools with the same APP, so they can understand if you are a little bit vague.</p>